Word: valhalla
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...divides the peoples in face of the united front of imperialist forces, because it nourishes bourgeois-nationalist tendencies and may ultimately lead to the loss of Socialist gains." And to the Communist mind, this is entirely logical: the way of achieving the the only force standing in the Communist Valhalla, the "withering away of the state," is the foreign bourgeoisie and its agents, and the only way to eradicate that enemy through the united efforts of the international proletariat...
...niche had been prepared for Foster's urn in the Kremlin wall, Communism's Valhalla. But portly Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an old comrade of Foster's who had flown over from the U.S. for the funeral, had other ideas. "From you, dear comrades, we received his ashes," she intoned at funeral's end, "and we shall return them to our country for burial in the industrial center of Chicago where he lived and worked for many years...
...ranks of the Blue Division that Franco sent to fight alongside the Nazis on the Eastern Front. Others were let out to labor on vast state projects: some 25,000 Civil War prisoners worked out the remainder of their sentences on Franco's monumental Guadarrama mountains Civil War Valhalla...
...Bayreuth, Wagner's grandson Wolfgang was up. to his old tricks: stripped down, sparsely lighted productions designed to free the stern old gods of Valhalla from heavy, cardboard-shield and plaster-throne cliches. But by now, this once revolutionary style has produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain...
...London (3 LPs, mono and stereo) in a superb performance. Conductor Georg Solti leads the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with anvil-stroking power; Kirsten Flagstad sings with serene beauty; and George London's Wotan towers with granitic strength. The majestically rolling accompaniment of the gods' procession to Valhalla is sure to lift almost any listener out of his seat...